DOD Seeks Classification 'Clippy' To Help Classify Data, Control Access

This entry was posted by Helen Weaver on July 10, 2018 at 9:18 pm

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The DOD has issued a request for information (RFI) from industry in a quest for technology that will prevent the mislabeling and accidental (or deliberate) access and sharing of sensitive documents and data. In an announcement posted in May by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), the Pentagon stated that the DOD CIO’s office — part of the Office of the Secretary of Defense — is “investigating the use of commercial solutions for labeling and controlling access to sensitive information.” Defense IT officials are seeking software that “must be able to make real-time decisions about the classification level of the information and an individual’s ability to access, change, delete, receive, or forward the information based on the credentials of the sending and/or receiving individual, facility, and system.” In other words, the DOD is looking for a classification Clippy. In a response to questions regarding the RFI issued in late June, DOD officials said that the system should be able to ideally protect “any file type on a Microsoft operating system (OS) file system and active directory domain.”